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L P Fisher VOLUMB VI. ALBANY, OREGON, AUGUST 28, 1874. NO. 61. Muslr:il I. olty Ole Bull -Cniullln Uno - 'llie Wevleya I'ugaulnl. Ole Hull in 1830 spent several months at Trieste, and one day visited tle house of M. Jaeil, the conductor of the orchestra. Little Alfred, thou only a few weeks old, listened with rapt attention to the wonderful tones he produced, and when lie ceased playing at once set up a cry for the violin, and lie would have ft ; and so it was given him, and, improbable as it may seem, at the age of three "tic execu ted many of Ole Hull's most aston ishing fiats. At sx he could play perfectly the concertos of Kobe, Heriotai 'l Mayseder, and at the a"e of eisht, without an hour's in- struction, he appear! in pnollC as a nolo pianist. Before he was six teen he had given concerts in every considerable city in Europe, and Liszt, who heard him at that age, is reported as saying, "His playing is full of fire, elegance, expression and genius " Tbe name ot Camilla Urso is familiar to the world, and her tal ents arc everywhere admired. Her father and grandfather were both eminent musicians. At the ase of six she was one ot the most charm ing children in the world. The slightest sound would cause hei to weep or latrgh, as it expressed sor row or joy. One day, at about this age, she said to her father, "I wish to learn the violin ;" aid like a sensible man, lie got a teacher at once At seven she made her debut. It is impossible to describe the ovation which she received. On a tour through France shortly after, she -wis loaded with praise, bonbons and toys, a kind of ovation to wWh little Camilla seemed not insensible. A critic, speaking of her at the age of eight, says: "What is the most surprising is the sentiment of her execution ; she excels in that essential expression that comes wholly from the soul, and which the composer, from lack of means to express, abandons to the discretion and intelligence of the executant." It is not generally known that the Rev. ('has. Wesley, brother ot the founder of the Methodist Church, was blessed with two sons. The elder, Charles (1767), when at the age of 3, without instruction, played several tunes' correctly on the harpsichord. When he was a baby his mother used to quiet him by playing on the harpsichord ; and go keen was his ear for harmony that he would not permit her to play with one hand only, and, though not able to speak, would seize hold of the other and put it on the keys. When he first began to play he had to be tied in the chair to keep him from tailing, but at that age (3) would put a true bass to all he played. At the age of 4, wheu asked to play before a stranger, he would always ask, hea mmickeri'" and if answered in the affirmative would comply cm tpirito. Although he never bad efficient instruction, at the age of 12 he played the works of Scar latti and Handel so as to excel any one in Loudon at the time. His later compositions were highly ad mired. Probably no one ever equaled Nicolo Paganini (1784) as a violin ist. At the age of eight he com posed a sonata, whicli was so diffi cult that none but himself could play it. At this time he played in the church three times a week, and made his debut at the theater at nine. From fourteen to twenty-one he traveled, producing an immense furore, wherever he appeared. In timately connected with his life was that of Camillo Sivori (1817). It is a somewhat remarkable circum stance that the birth of this young virtuoso was hastened by the won derful strains of i aganini's violin ; fur on the night ho was born his mother visited a concert given by the great t ieneose, whose mantle in later years rightfully fell on the shoulders ot Sivori. At eighteen months he would play on two sticks to represent a violin, and hum a melody of his own ; and before he was two, hear ing a band in the street, he managed to get tint of the house and followed the music several miles, and teased so much shortly after for a violin, that his father had to get one for him. At four lie could play any thing he heard sung, and had be come the pet of the whole city, in eluding tbe Queen, who often gave him presents. He would never go to church, or anywhere else, unless there was going to be music, and then no persuasion would keep him away. When he was six Paganini aeturned to the city, and sent for him, and on hearing him play gave him lessons for two months, when he was able to perform concertos in public. At ten he played at the Conservatoire in Paris, and went from thence to London. When he was twenty-three Paganini, then sick unto death, gave him his favor ite violin, saying, "You will be the only survivor of my manner." Six years later he came to this country, and a critic who saw him says : "In manner he is very modest and unassuming, apparently not wish ing to pass himself oft' upon the public for more than he is worth." Gilasy fr . 1 tiffitet. olitiral Complexion or the htgi Inture. The political status of the next Legislature is thus set forth by the Record: STATU SENATE. Baker County J. W. Wisdom, I). Kenton J. B. Lee, R. Clackamas John Myers and .las. W. Offield, Democrats. Clatsop, Columbia and Tillamook S. H. Smith, R. Coos and Cnrrv G. Webster, R. Douglas J. F. Watson, R,, W. F. Owens, I. Grant-W. H. Clark, D. Josephine E. N, Tolen, D. Jackson J. S. Renin, D. Lane-W. W. Bristow, I., R. B. Cochran, D. Ljnn S. D. Haley and Thomas P. Goodman, I. Marion M. L. Savage, D., Jo seph Engle, R., J. A. Richardson, R. Multnomah J. N. Dolph R , J. S. M. Van Cleave, L, Sol. Ilirsch, R. Polk R. S. Crystal, I. Union S. Hanna, R. Umatilla 0. L. Jewell, I. Washington T. R Cornelius, R. Wasco E. Barnes, I. Yamhill Wm. Townsend, D., J. C. Brady, D. Benton and I'o k A. W, AVlth- am, R. Democrats are Wisdom of Baker, Myers and Offield of Clackamas, Tolen of Josephine, Herrin of Jack- son, Cochran of Lane, Haley and Munkers of Linn, Savage of Marion, Townsend and Brady of Yamhill, W. II. Clark of Grant.-12. Republicans are Lee of Benton, Smith of Clatsop, Columbia and Tillamook, Webster of Coos and Curry, Wratson of Douglas, Engle and Richardson of Marion, Dolph and Hirsch of Multnomah, Hanna of Union, Cornelias of Washington, Writhara of Benton and Polk. 11. Independents art Owens of Dong las, Bristow of Lane, Goodman of Linn. Van Cleave of Multuomalj, Crystal of Polk, Jewell of Uma tilla, Barnes of" Wjasco. 7. The liold-over members of the Senato are Myers of Clackamas, Webster of Coos and Curry, Wat son of Douglas, Tolen of Josephine, Bristow of Lane, Dolph ot Multno mah, Hanna of Union, Cornelius of Washington. Only 8 hold over and 22 were elected last Spring. In Washington county P. G. Buford was voted for as a candidate for State Senator, and received 589 votes, and it is understood that he will contest the olectiou of T. R. Cornelius, who holds over and was elected to represent Washington, Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook, and holds over, specifically, by the act which created Washington in a separate district. Cornelius' seat seems secure. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Baker -J. C. Wilson, D., C G. Chandler, D. Benton James Bruce, I., James Chambers, R., W. J. Kelly, R, Clackamas Henry McGugin, D., J. M. Keed, D., P. 8. Xoyer, D., S. P. Lee, R Columbia J. S. Rinearson, L Coos and Curry II. Blake, R. Douglas Geo. Kiddle, I., J. G Drain, I., D. W. Stenis, I., Thomas Ledgerwood, I. Grant Bart Curl, I. Jackson G. B. Van Riper, D., W. J. Plymale, D., Thomas Wright, D. Josephine W. W. Fiddler, D. Lane A. J. Doak, D., Richard Hays, D., J. D. Matlock, D., John MoClung, R. Linn Harvey Shelton, D., A. W. Stannard, D., G. F. Crawford, D., F. Shedd, I., Joseph Lame, L, Jonathan Wassom, I. Marion F. X. Mathieu, D., David Simpson, R., William Darst, R., C. A. Reed, R., W. Cranston, R., A. N. Gilbert R, Munkers, D, T. Multnomah Jacob Johnson, L, R. S. Jewett, I., Raleigh Stott, I., William Cornell, R., J. M. Gearin, L, R. P. Kelly, R., J. M. Scott, R. Polk-W. C. Brown, I., S. L. Butler, I., David Stump, I. Clatsop and Tillamook W. Dean, R. Uuion D. Wright, D., W. W. Ross, R. Umatilla W. M. Steen and J. A. Florence, Independents. Washington James Partlow, U. Jackson and Thomas Roe, I. , Wasco Robert Mays and E. R. Dufur, I. Yam h il 1 Wi 1 liam Galloway. D., E. C. Bradshaw, D., Lee Laugh'.in, R. Clatsop county voted for Jcseph Jetfers, believing they were entitled to separate representation, but this claim cannot stand as the Constitu tion limits the number of represen tatives to sixty, aud that number is full already. The complexion of the House is as follows: Democrats Willson and Chand ler of Baker, McGugin, Reed and Noyerot Clackamas, Van Riper, Flymale and Wright of Jackson, Fiddler of Josephine, Doak, Hays and Matlock of Lane, Shelton, Stannard aud Crawford of Linn, Mathieu of Marion, Galloway and Bradshaw of Yamhill, Wright ot Union, 19. Republicans Kelly and Cham- bers of Bet ton, Lee of Clackamas, Drily ot Coos and Curry, McClung of Lane, Simpson, Darst, Reed, Cranston and Gilbert of Marion, Cornell, Kelly and Scott of Mult, nomah, Dean of Clatsop and Tilla mook, Ross of Union, Laughlin of Yamhill, 17. Independents Lame, Shedd and Wassom of Linn, Jewett, Stott and Gearin of Multnomah, Brown, But ler and Stump of Polk. Steen and Florence of Umatilla, Partlow, Jackson and Roe of Washington, Mays and Dufur of Wasco, Bruce of Benton, Rinearson ot Columbia, Riddle, Drain, Stearns and Ledger wood ot Douglas, Curl of Grant, 24. We learn that the scat of Bart Curl of Grant county, will be con tested by George Reynolds, the Democratic candidate. The vote stood Curl, 212, Reynolds, 199, and Curl's seat will be contested on the ground that he is ineligible un der the clause of the Constitution that requires one' year previous res idence in the county as qualification for membership of the Legislature. A man out in Iowa, according to the Burlington Ilawkeye, died re cently who had taken his county paper tor twelve years without pay ing for it. Upon the day of his burial the kind-hearted, forgiving editor called to see him for the last time, and stuffed a linen duster and a couple ot palm-leaf hats in his coffin. He was preparing him for a warmer climate, Miss Hattie Lewis, of New Lon. don, Conn., has recently married the Roman Count Bandalairi at Paris. A Ten-TfaMMauHt-DoIlMr Olrl. I must give you a story lately told me which goes to show the value of the girl of the period. On a certain day, on a Pennsylvania railroad, a belle of a thriving Penn sylvania town, the daughter of a wealthy lumber merchant, wan traveling in the same car with a shrewd old citizen of her native town and an agreeable young gen tlemau from the West, who -tolls the story. The latter had been talking to the belle, but as nig hi,, drew on and the young lady grew drowsy he gave up his seat to her and placed himself beside the some what cynical Pennsylvanian. Tho latter began the conversation by pointing to a high mountain past which they were whirling, and said : " Yon see that mountain. Six or eight years ago it was covered with as fine a forest as ever urew, and was worth ten thousand dot lars and upwards. Now, without a tree, covered with stumps, tbq land is scarcely worth a continental. The net produce of that mountain lies over there in that seat," and ho pointed to the recumbent belle j "that is my calculation. It has just about absorbed all ot that lum ber which her father owned to raiso that girl, pay for clothes and Jew elry, bring her out in society, and maintain her there. Some of you young men, perhaps, it you wen; given your choice between tho mountain yonder, as. it now stand-, and the net produce ; but as for mo, give me the stumps." AT, Y Graphic. There was an old couple at tho Central depot yesterday waiting to go through to the West, and they seemed loving enough until the old man went out and returned smok ing a five-cent cigar, and with l..r hat slanting over his left ear. Tho wife looked at him twice before sho could recognize him, and then opened her mouth and said : " What'd I tell you, Philetus Rem ington, before we left New Jersey ? Didn't I say you'd go and make a fool of yourself the first chance you got?" Retried to pacify her by saying that the cigar only cost fivo cents, but she shouted: "You teased and teased till I let you git your boots blacked; then you wanted some soda-water ; then you bought apples on the train, and here's another five cents thrown away ! It all oouuts up, and if you don't die in the poor-house then my tame hain't Sary !" A correspondent says that tho Princess de la Tour d'Auvergne, who is erecting a convent on the Mount of Olives which she has purchased and presented to tbe Catholics will remain in Jerusa lem seven years longer. Her sob companions in the little cottage where she lives are a dog and cat. John Bruner, twelve years old, banged himself at his father's house, in Hardin county, Ky., the other day. His father had refused to buy him a new saddle. The worst of maniac maniacs,